Roddy McDowall
2) Overboard
Language
English
Formats
Description
A super-rich and pretentious socialite winds up in the world of a struggling carpenter with four kids.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Christmas has been cancelled! Or at least it will be if Santa can't find a way to guide his sleigh through a fierce blizzard. Fortunately for him, there's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Frosty the snowman: When Frosty the snowman is accidentally brought to life, he has several adventures and must outwit the plans of an evil magician in order to find safety at the North Pole. Frosty returns: When a power-hungry tycoon invents a new product that will...
Language
English
Description
The collie is sold by her impoverished family. Priscilla, played by 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, understand Lassie more than adults do and helps her escape kennel captivity. Braving storms, hunger and peril, Lassie makes a cross-country journey back to her original family.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the production and filming of the motion picture The planet of the apes and its sequels, which explored religious, social, and political issues through the relationship between apes and humans and between slaves and masters in an imaginary future world. Also looks at the spin-off television programs and merchandise. Includes interviews with stars Charlton Heston and Kim Hunter.
9) Macbeth
Pub. Date
2012, 1948
Language
English
Description
Orson Welles' dark and moody screen version of the classic William Shakespeare tragedy about a presumptuous Scottish prince's quest for power through patricide-in keeping with both the play's spirit and Welles' vision. As with his other masterpieces, Welles effectively mixes the use of shadow and oblique camera angles to achieve the ominous sense of a land in peril. Originally cut to 89 minutes for the theatrical release, the film has been restored...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the fourth installment of the Planet of the apes series, a plague has wiped out all of the cats and dogs in the near future. As a result, apes begin to be kept as pets and eventually slaves. One ape, Caesar, son of talking apes from the future, leads a revolution to free the apes and take over the planet.
12) 5 card stud
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Someone is stalking the members of a lynching party in Colorado during the 1880's. Things lead to a violent shootout when only two members remain.
15) Hello down there
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Fred Miller builds an experimental underwater house but his boss thinks he's nuts. To prove the house's viability, Fred, his wife and their kids, agree to live in the house for 30 days.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Formats
Description
This third Planet of the apes film finds Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Milo, three apes from the future, escaping from their planet as it is being destroyed and landing on 20th century Earth, where they are taken to the Los Angeles Zoo for examination. When Zira reveals their ability to speak to a psychologist, the apes are treated as curiosities. However, when the U.S. government begins to believe their story that the Earth will eventually be inherited...
19) Fright night
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When a teen-age boy can't get anybody to believe that his neighbor is a vampire, he turns to a TV-horror host, who used to be the "Great Vampire Killer" of the movies.